location-aware futures and the map

Location-aware futures and the mapMatthew W. Wilson, PhDUniversity of KentuckyHarvard [email protected]@wilsonism

5 June 2015Digital Landscape Architecture

Dessau, Germany

Location-aware futures and the mapMatthew W. Wilson, PhD is not a Designer.University of KentuckyHarvard [email protected]@wilsonism


Dessau, Germany

Location-aware futures and the mapMatthew W. Wilson, PhDUniversity of KentuckyHarvard [email protected]@wilsonism


Dessau, Germany

Location-aware futures and the map

@wilsonism 5Chris Bennett, 2014, Launch Site Satellite

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These materials are most recent manifestations within a long continuum of retentional techniques for the reproduction of humanity itself.

@wilsonism 7Allan Schmidt, 1967, Lansing, MI

retention

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retention[ disclose ]

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Twitter, 2014, Protests in Ferguson, MO

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How does the map stage?

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How does the map stage?Who benefits from this staging?

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geodesignquantified-selfneogeographybig data

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digital pharmaka

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digital pharmaka

to what we pay attention

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digital pharmaka

to what we pay attention and how we pay attention

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geodesignquantified-selfneogeographyinfrastructure

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geodesignquantified-selflabor relationsinfrastructure

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geodesigngovernancelabor relationsinfrastructure

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geodesigngovernancelabor relationsinfrastructure

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geodesign?critical

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geodesign?critical

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“The Bauhaus people understood that things could not be created independently of each other in space … without taking into account their interrelationships and their relationship to the whole. … Space opened up to perception, to conceptualization, just as it did to practical action.” (Lefebvre 1991 [1974], 124-5)

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“When it comes to the question of what the Bauhaus’s audacity produced in the long run, one is obliged to answer: the worldwide, homogeneous and monotonous architecture of the state, whether capitalist or socialist.” (Lefebvre 1991 [1974], 126)

@wilsonism 36Andy Woodruff, Live MBTA Bus Speeds, Bostonography.com/Bus, 2013

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“I am not a historian. I am a landscape planner who looks toward the future.” (Steinitz 2012, 8)

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a better future?”(Esri 2013)

“Can we design

@wilsonism 39Paul Klee, 1927, Ships in the Dark

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“If there is a common “foundation” … that all the arts share…, this is not in the unity of what has been, but only in the unity of a common future: the “power of the future” is that most urgent of forces ...” (Grosz 2008, 86-7)

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common future

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common futurefuture of the commons

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“A new age of geography is dawning: the age of geodesign.” (Esri 2013)

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“Today, geospatial technology, or GIS, is very valuable.” (Dangermond 2010)

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“Today, geospatial technology, or GIS, is very valuable.” (Dangermond 2010)

“We basically [said]: why aren’t more landscape architects… using GIS to inform their design decisions?” (Flaxman 2010)

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@wilsonism 49NCGIA Workshop on GIS and Design, 2008, Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA

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representation and futurity

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representation and futurityneutrality and efficacy

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relationality and complexity

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representation and futurity

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representation and futurity“first, ... increase the… understanding and… refine the definition [of the problem] and second, … to investigate the possible trade-offs between conflicting objectives and to identify unanticipated… characteristics of solutions.” (Densham 1991, 403)

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“These techniques remain largely unquestioned, conventional devices of inventory, quantitative analysis and legitimization of future plans.” (Corner 1999, 221)

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leveling the playing field

empowerment

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leveling the playing field

empowerment

@wilsonism 62Steinitz, 2012, A Framework for Geodesign

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“This may be our next major challenge -- to make more complex landscape planning more readily understandable, in order to broaden public participation, and to improve decision making in support of a more equitable and sustainable future.” (Steinitz 2008, 74)

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“It may be that what all the arts share is the aim of capturing the force of time… It is this goal that makes art itself eternal, always seeking a way to render time sensational, to make time resonate sensibly, for no art can freeze time or transform its forces except through the invention of new techniques, new forces and energies.” (Grosz 2008, 86-87)

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“It may be that what all the arts share is the aim of capturing the force of time… It is this goal that makes art itself eternal, always seeking a way to render time sensational, to make time resonate sensibly, for no art can freeze time or transform its forces except through the invention of new techniques, new forces and energies.” (Grosz 2008, 86-87)

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“It may be that what all the arts share is the aim of capturing the force of time… It is this goal that makes art itself eternal, always seeking a way to render time sensational, to make time resonate sensibly, for no art can freeze time or transform its forces except through the invention of new techniques, new forces and energies?


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I propose that a critical geodesign is both a visioning of futures, to strike at socio-environmental injustices, as well as a perpetual questioning of the conditions that enable such representations.

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